Former LSU teammates are again collectively within the WNBA.
The Chicago Sky chosen TCU level guard Hailey Van Lith eleventh total within the 2025 WNBA Draft, and although she was a Horned Frogs star final season, she’s rejoining her Tigers sister Angel Reese within the Windy Metropolis.
Van Lith has been on three completely different Elite Eight groups over her 5 collegiate seasons, and she or he additionally secured a bronze medal on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games with the ladies’s 3×3 basketball workforce.
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TCU’s Hailey Van Lith poses earlier than the WNBA basketball draft, Monday, April 14, 2025, in New York. (AP Picture/Pamela Smith)
However Van Lith secured her standing as high WNBA Draft prospect this 12 months after a super season at TCU. She shot a career-high 45.9% from the sphere, which led to 17.9 factors averaged per sport with 4.6 rebounds and 5.4 assists as nicely.
In flip, Van Lith earned the Large 12’s Participant and Newcomer of the Yr awards, whereas serving to the Horned Frogs not simply win the common season title, however extra importantly, the Large 12 title as nicely.
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TCU made it to the Elite Eight behind Van Lith’s performances, which led to the single-season program information with 680 whole factors and 204 assists tallied.
TCU’s Hailey Van Lith was anticipated to be one of many first alternatives within the WNBA Draft. (AP Picture/Pamela Smith)
Van Lith’s profession started at Louisville, the place she performed her first three seasons in faculty. She was a first-team All-ACC honoree in back-to-back seasons in 2022 and 2023, the previous of which the Cardinals made the Last 4.
She would transfer on to Kim Mulkey’s program at LSU, the place she teamed up with Reese for the 2023-24 season. Many have been intrigued to see how Van Lith would slot in working the Tigers’ offense, however she had a down 12 months, averaging simply 11.6 factors and posting her lowest profession capturing share at 37.8%.
Van Lith, although, push her haters to the aspect this previous season, cementing her value on the professional stage, and the Sky used their second choose within the first spherical to snag her.
Hailey Van Lith poses with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert after being chosen with the quantity eleven total choose to the Chicago Sky within the 2025 WNBA Draft at The Shed at Hudson Yards. (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Pictures)
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Slovenia energy ahead Ajsa Sivka was taken tenth total by Chicago earlier than they known as Van Lith’s title.
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